That was the same thoughts I had on gnuradio + a cheap sdr.
I remember I tried to get a temperature sensor decoding gnu radio plugin working and I never solved it.
Couldn't run it on a Pi, it required a fast intel system to be usable. That eliminated the nice raspberry pi "canned image" solution other projects use to cut through the dependency mess.
So I had to do a linux installation from scratch.
But the online packages for gnu radio were broken or out of date.
So I had to build GNU radio from scratch.
And once I got GNU radio going any existing gnu radio program was broken because it required an exact version of gnu radio and other dependencies.
Maybe it is better now, that was a few years back.
I've also come to see the light with Arch Linux, so that might help.
I remember I tried to get a temperature sensor decoding gnu radio plugin working and I never solved it.
Couldn't run it on a Pi, it required a fast intel system to be usable. That eliminated the nice raspberry pi "canned image" solution other projects use to cut through the dependency mess.
So I had to do a linux installation from scratch.
But the online packages for gnu radio were broken or out of date.
So I had to build GNU radio from scratch.
And once I got GNU radio going any existing gnu radio program was broken because it required an exact version of gnu radio and other dependencies.
Maybe it is better now, that was a few years back.
I've also come to see the light with Arch Linux, so that might help.
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